I certainly don’t have a dog in this hunt, but it seems like somebody needs to consider following the First Rule of Holes.

Best I can tell, he's objecting to a column that pointed out his antics are why higher-profile schools have shied away from hiring him. I think he kinda proved my point tonight. https://t.co/L7gb5uAnHw

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This and the fact that he was fired from Texas Tech for being abusive towards his players and not just in the “take a lap” kind of way. He could have been the next Vol coach. That would have been fun to watch.

Tennessee fans would love him. They could build him a pirate ship for the Vol Navy. Build bunkers up in the hills together in case a Democrat gets elected President. Compare notes on who Hillary kills next and which fictional, vaguely Jewish organization Obama is conspiring with to enslave right-thinking Americans.

Well, I’ve always thought he was entertaining and any aggravation he caused Craig James was fine by me. But reading those stories makes me think he suffered a few too many hits to the head. I guess he’s slipped around the bend.

And you think Knight is completely normal??? They both are eccentric imo. They both can also be bullies. Look I like both, they are entertaining. Knight was one of the best imo. To me, that is the one of the biggest differences (coaches), you have that right. But there are definitely some similarities….

“Eccentric” just isn’t what comes to mind when I think about Knight. I try not to.

“Dude that needs his ass beat” is what comes to mind.

I just don’t recall leach saying/doing anything in the area of bullying that not normal within the authoritarian construct that coaches live within. I may have missed/forgot something but I don’t recall getting too bent out of shape about how he treated James’ kid for example.

Yep the free paper at Hotel breakfast was always USA Today. as the years went by more and more papers were left unread and unused as people were reading their phones for news, sports or whatever. Its hard to give away an actual News paper at this point.

Yea, now much do you make a year? “Head coach Mike Leach was awarded a $200,000 raise in 2016 and makes $2.95 million annually. The rollover clause in Leach’s contract was activated again last December, and now extends through Dec. 31, 2021, but WSU has not announced any change in his salary for 2017.”

I’m surprised there’s not more outrage over this. (Maybe there is up in Washington but this is the first I’ve heard of this.) He’s the highest paid employee of the University and by far the most visible, prominent voice that the University has. This isn’t like Saban or probably a lot of other coaches who are Republicans/conservatives. This is Alex Jones Infowars or Sean Hannity nutjob bullshit that he’s spouting.

Eh, there a lot of folks that generally look for our government to get so jacked up that maybe some day someone can turn it around. It’s just so engorged on itself there really isn’t much of anything it can do for reasonable cost and efficiency.

Yeah but the WSU folks don’t like the idea of going 2-10 or 3-9 every year. Dude is certifiable but he has built a team that is usually over .500 and for them he might as well be winning the natty. We would have known that the football gods were smiling on us had the Vols hired him. Alas we just get to watch CJP and president of UT (Fulmer) go at it at some point.

Argon: with the comments from the administration and some major boosters, you nailed it. Of course the ongoing investigation into the WSU administration and their inability to correctly count attendance and $$$$ at ballgames is more of a concern than loose lips Leach.

If Wolken is a ‘nobody’ as Leach has claimed, then why on earth is he even bothering responding to him? Makes zero sense.

As for Wolken, he lost all credibility with me when it was uncovered that he offered to write puff pieces for UT’s coaching search/former AD (Currie) for continued access to the program. That, and his use of smiley faces and such in those emails.

I’ve been reading your blog for 10 years man, I know the truth, you can deny it to others and call me names but we both know I’m right whether you admit or not. I know you won’t admit it though because you can never admit when you are wrong and you can never let anything go. Mike Leach Yar!

You accused me of changing my opinion of Leach’s coaching skills based on my political bias. I point out that I expressly stated the exact opposite of your assertion months ago and in your mind that just proves your truthfulness. Hokay.

Then there are my comments here or my post here or here or here or here (check the comments, too) or… well, I think you get my point.

Evidently I’m either one helluva liar or you don’t read the blog as thoroughly as you claim.

BTW, while we’re on the subject of your reading skills, if you read the linked piece, you might notice that Leach got reamed out on the Internet for pushing a false comment as something real, even after numerous folks pointed out that it was a spliced thing. First he doubled down on the BS, then he removed his tweet altogether. Care to explain what that has to do with Trump?

Wolken’s column was spot on, though. Big schools aren’t going to want to deal with Leach being a weirdo. They’re just not. Getting the school president, the power players within the school, and the AD on the same page to hire him won’t happen at a big program and it’s due to stuff like posting what he did the other day.

I really wish all football coaches would shut up about politics, and that includes the ones who agree with my own views. The whole wide world has plenty of things for “eccentrics” like Leach to talk about, without adding yet another deeply uninformed voice to the political cacophony. College football is also an arena in which I am happy I can experience some fellowship with people I don’t agree with on politics or religion. Please don’t spoil it, coaches.

Only Leach has really been foolish enough to tread into those waters. Harbaugh dipped his toes into that pool, but he immediately sensed a chill in recruiting and rapidly went the other direction.

But this isn’t really politics form my vantage point. It’s a guy representing a research university blithely retweeting a known lie and a blatant piece of anti-American propaganda – and thinking he’s striking a blow for… what, exactly? It’s a question of basic civic literacy. Seeing someone like Leach flunk that test is disheartening. But I honestly don’t know why I am surprised anymore. The political revelation of the past 3 years has been the recognition that this stuff isn’t just the currency of remote AM stations and the backwaters of the Internet. Even people making millions of dollars a year want to believe this nonsense. So much for economic anxiety as an excuse..

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“But outside of that, the biggest advantage you can have is have good leadership, have a veteran football team, and when you’ve got that, it doesn’t matter whether you have spring practice or not. When you don’t have that, it’s tougher, when you don’t have leadership and you don’t have the experience at certain positions.”— Kirby Smart, Dawgs247, 3/31/20